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REMBRANDT VAN RIJN The Return of the Prodigal Son.
Etching and drypoint, 1636. 158x136 mm; 61/4x53/8 inches, thread margins. Usticke's first state (of 4), with the toe of the boot at the far right still printing. A brilliant, dark and evenly printed impression, showing no wear in the densely cross-hatched areas, such as to the right of the son's nose, and with the faint landscape in the left background manifest, characteristic of the earliest impressions of this etching. Bartsch 91; Biörklund 36-D; Hollstein (White and Boon) 91.
